Ten Great Canadian winners vie for $2M

Ten Canadian game developers have been singled out from nearly 70 submissions to vie for up to $2 million in financing and industry mentorship as part of Telefilm Canada's Great Canadian Video Game Competition, the Corporation announced today.

Marvel Ultimate Alliance

Also known as "Wolverine and Friends," Marvel Ultimate Alliance does, indeed, have a lot to marvel about. Ultimately, however, it smacks of been-here, done-this, got-the-t-shirt, washing-my-car-with-it.

Rare brothers walk away

Chris and Tim Stamper were once common fixtures at Rare, the idiosyncratic game development studio the two founded some 20 years ago. But not any more. They be gone. Quit. Upped and walked out, they did.

EA toots Madden horn

Understandably tooting its own horn, Electronic Arts is reminding the masses that Madden NFL 07 has sold more than five million copies to consumers on a total of ten game platforms.

Family Guy

With Family Guy for PS2, the tone and humor is pretty much dead-on, but two-thirds of gameplay, to quote one of the show's more memorable lines, has "a weenie like a Christmas-tree light."

EA Shoots but 2K Scores in battle of the NHL games

Though each imperfect in their own way, both EA Sports' NHL 07 and 2K Games NHL 2K7 manage to emulate the science of the coolest game on ice to great effect. When it comes to fun, i.e. the whole point of videogames, however, one delivers more than the other - and not necessarily for the reasons you'd expect.

Xbox Live Arcade hits its stride

After months of sporadic releases, the Xbox 360's Live Arcade feature finally seems to have hit its stride, regularly unveiling a game a week (every Wednesday) throughout most of the summer and continuing here into fall.

Evergeek Media Launches Article Shop

Consortium of geeks makes 'Digital Lifestyle' articles available to print and online news publications through a convenient online shopping cart.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 is pretty much the same old same old, which, fortunately, still makes for same old addictive golf greatness.

NASCAR 07

"Improvement" is a word that can be loosely associated with NASCAR 07 for PlayStation2 and Xbox. But while there are things that make it marginally better then NASCAR 06, none of it is a particularly big deal.